STARs

State-of-the-Art Reports (STARs) are intended to provide up-to-date and comprehensive surveys on topics of interest to the visualization research community. We encourage the submission of STARs on topics that have not yet been covered in any recent previous STAR or other survey. We welcome submissions that introduce emerging technologies, as well as proposals on more traditional visualization topics. We also welcome contributions from related disciplines and application areas demonstrating contributions to, or benefits from, the area of visualization including, but not limited to, visual computing, computer graphics, human-computer interaction, virtual reality, image processing, computer vision, psychology, geography, chemistry, computational fluid dynamics, data analysis, computational sciences, medicine, biology, economy, politology, etc.

All accepted EuroVis 2018 STAR reports will be published in Computer Graphics Forum. A list of all CGF STARs and survey papers can be found at the CGF web site.

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

As part of the acceptance process into Computer Graphics Forum, STARs will undergo a multi-stage process. First, authors are being asked to submit an initial sketch by October 13, 2017. A STAR sketch briefly describes the planned STAR by outlining the topic, discussing its relevance for the visualization community, providing the planned structure and outline of the STAR together with all key references, and short biographies of the authors. The length of a STAR sketch main text is limited to two page. References and short biographies are considered extra pages and are not counted within the two-page limit. Bibliographies should be limited to 200 words per author. The format of the sketch can be found at www.eurovis2018.org/submitters#stars. STAR sketches will be reviewed by the STAR IPC and comments on suitability and relevance will be provided by November 3, 2017. Authors will then be required to submit a full STAR. Full STAR submissions will then undergo a single blind, double cycle review, similar to the one for regular papers submitted to Computer Graphics Forum, where three external experts on the respective topic will evaluate the STAR. We do not impose strict maximum lengths for submitted STARs. However, it is unusual for STARs to exceed 20 pages in CGF latex style including all images but excluding references. To summarize, survey papers are up to 20 pages (excluding references). There is no page limit for references and author biographies are not included in the final version of the paper.

To demonstrate the relevant expertise needed to produce the proposed STAR, authors are required to submit the brief biographies of all authors as a piece of supplementary materials.

Electronic submission of the STAR sketch and full proposal is mandatory and will be conducted using the Precision Conference System (PCS).

We plan to schedule each STAR as a 45 minutes presentation as in Eurographics conferences (subject to the schedule management of the EuroVis 2018 program). In any circumstance, a STAR presentation will always be given a longer time slot than that for a full paper.